Security News
Threat Detection
US Bans Kaspersky Software
Using a Trump-era authority, the US Commerce Department has banned the sale of Kaspersky’s antivirus tools to new customers in the US, citing alleged threats to national security.
By Eric Geller
Cash Cow
Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout
By Andy Greenberg
Long Shots
The Lords of Silicon Valley Are Thrilled to Present a ‘Handheld Iron Dome’
By Matthew Gault
Total Recall
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
By Matt Burgess
Zombie Apocalypse
‘Largest Botnet Ever’ Tied to Billions in Stolen Covid-19 Relief Funds
By Dell Cameron
Time Capsule
How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
By Kim Zetter
Security Roundup
Microsoft’s New Recall AI Tool May Be a ‘Privacy Nightmare’
By Dell Cameron and Andrew Couts
Two Faced
He Trained Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark-Web Drug Market
By Andy Greenberg